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Jim Morris brings the West Wing to comedic life like no other political satirist. Recreating Washington D.C. and the Beltway, Jim caricatures our nation's leaders utilizing his uncanny ability to vocally and physically impersonate the newsmakers with flair, wit and intelligence, creating a hilarious living political cartoon.
Political Impressionist, Comedian Jim Morris sets his sights on the most prominent personalities in politics and popular culture, the major newsmakers, newscasters, and entertainers on the cutting edge and renders them in spot-on comic performances.
The New Yorker Magazine hailed Jim Morris as "the country's leading political impressionist".
Jim’s extraordinary cast includes President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush plus Al Gore, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Rudolph Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger and if the political spirits are just right maybe an appearance by the Ghost of Ronald Reagan.
Jim Morris’ show has been described as a monologue with a cast of thousands, the political life of our country as an ongoing sitcom and a sort of White House Confidential with laughs, as Jim takes us behind closed doors into the secret comic halls of power.

Audiences rave over Jim’s ability to fully submerge himself within each character and comically envelop their particular political beliefs, moral ideologies, and personality quirks.

The Boston Herald described Jim as "a one-man Disney attraction, his own Hall of the Presidents".

Through five Presidential administrations, as politicians come and go, Jim Morris continues to play the President. "I used to think I'd be a lame duck comedian right alongside the latest lame duck President”.

Jim has always been interested in politics, making people laugh and impersonating and puncturing authority figures. He discovered his art while attending high school in Framingham, Mass., where one day pretending to be the principal he issued an “unauthorized” early dismissal over the school public address system. Of course on that day the other students were dismissed much earlier then Jim. Now-a-days Jim still tries to bring that daring sense of comic anarchy to his show.

Newt Gingrich the former Speaker of the House put it this way "I've worked closely with most of the guys Jim does in his act, and the scary thing is Jim often makes a lot more sense than they do”.
The New York Times in their review said "What distinguishes Mr. Morris's impressions from those of previous Presidential parodists is with the seriousness with which he approaches his task. In the age of sound bites and handlers, Mr. Morris's parodies are much more than personal demolition jobs. They are surreal exposés of the emptiness and equivocation of contemporary political rhetoric that makes candidates of every ideological stripe appear ridiculous and untrustworthy."
"Uncanny" said the Chicago Tribune. "Dreadfully wicked" was the opinion of the Washington Times. And Mike Wallace of all people called it "Mean, mean, mean".
Jim has enjoyed several face-to-face encounters with the principal subjects of his humor. Scenes of engagement have included the legendary White House Correspondents Dinner,
"A Gala Salute to the President" at Washington D.C.’s historic Ford's Theater, and even up close and personal, inside the Oval Office.

Jim is seen regularly on Network and Cable Television offering his own versions of politician’s sound bites and spin, starring in comedy specials for HBO, ABC, CBS and Cinemax, appearing on the Tonight Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Larry King Live and Comic Relief. Jim provides the voices for "The X-Presidents", the critically acclaimed cartoon on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

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As a kid, I always liked comedy and would listen to albums by George Carlin, Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby, and Lenny Bruce. Despite my enjoyment of these great talents, I decided to pursue an unfunny career and left Los Angeles for San Francisco State College to be a lawyer. When that did not hold my attention, I switched majors and ended up getting a Bachelor of. Art Degree in Communications.